March 31, 2014
A D.C. federal judge dismissed environmentalists' challenge to the government's decision to lease areas in the part of the Gulf of Mexico that was the site of 2010's Deepwater Horizon oil spill, ruling Monday that the government did not violate environmental law.
July 01, 2013
A coalition of environmental groups on Friday urged a Washington federal judge to nix an oil and gas lease sale the government conducted last year in the same part of the Gulf of Mexico as the Deepwater Horizon spill, saying regulators violated environmental law in approving the sales.
October 23, 2012
Oil and gas drilling company Apache Corp. won a bid Monday to intervene in a Washington lawsuit challenging the government's decision to lease to Apache areas in the same part of the Gulf of Mexico that was the site of 2010's Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
June 18, 2012
A coalition of environmental groups asked a Washington federal court Monday to vacate the first oil and natural gas lease sale in the same part of the Gulf of Mexico as the Deepwater Horizon spill, alleging the U.S. government failed to properly consider new offshore drilling risks.